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What is your opinion of my thingy on writing poetry?


On Writing Poetry
by Elaine Polin

Poetry
does not flow
from brain
to fingertips.

Words must be
changed
arranged
exchanged.

At the end
most of them
must be
trashed.
DM: You have plenty of your own.
As I have said before, Dondi is the exception to the rule. He breathes poetry.
- Elaine P…is for Poetry

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How can I improve my creative writing quickly in 3 months ***?me?


Are there any great ****?ks I can read……..or are there other ways
- Justcurious

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Any other NaNoWriMo-ians here between 12-15?


Are there? We should start aclib or do NaNoEdMo together or somthing….. Also, Please fell free to ***?k what NaNoWriMo is!!!!!!!!!
Aly
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writting month. every year in the Month of November A ***?rson has to write 50,000 words…I do it every year… Here is a site that anyone can look up:
www.NaNoWriMo.org It’s free and soem few 100thousands of ***?ople do it. It is a LOT of ***?n. try it!!!!!
A NanoWriMo-ian is someone who did NaNoWriMo…..
- DragonFires

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What are those get-togethers called when ***?ople listen to poets reciting their poetry?


I’m doing a project on The Beat Generation and i need a picture of what this poetry meeting thing is and it would help if i knew what it was called…help me out please!
- bre.marquis

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A little help with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), please?


I’m trying to write a novel for NaNoWriMo, and I think I’m on the right track in terms of characters, literary devices, etc. The one little problem is that I cannot come up with a ****?d enough plot.

The basic storyline revolves around a girl who ***?ems to feel her dead brother’s presence all around her. Her mother is developing Alzheimer’s, and she has a younger sibling. She knows that her physical and mental condition is ****?idly deteriorating (due to what: I don’t know yet), so, ***? the only able ***?rson in her whole ***?mily, she ****?ts to record a sort of account of her ***?mily history, her life, since she does not ****?t to be forgotten in the ***?ture etc. ***? ***?me passes, her ability to write becomes worse (like in “Flowers for Algernon”), and she needs to be taken care of constantly. Her younger sibling takes over her role ***? the “recorder of anecdotes”.

–This is the point at which I’m completely lost. Maybe before, I don’t know. If anyone has any suggestions, please don’t hesitate to voice them!
- SravieInTheSky

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Good fonts and ways to decorate a poetry anthology?


Hi,
I have this poetry anthology project that i need to complete, and i need some nice fonts for the cover page. Does anyone know of any? Please post the link and the name of it if you can, ****? if you don’t know the link, it’s okay, just give the name please… Also, does anyone know some nice ways to decorate the cover page, like with what kind of pictures, where to put them etc.

Thanks You! And, oh, I WILL BE AWARDING BEST ANSWER!! LOL, thank you!
- vanessa y

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Post-NaNoWriMo ***?ilures?


I won my first NaNoWriMo, ****? have yet to finish my novel. I had high hopes that my novel would be close to ready for publication at this point, ****? I’ve yet to begin my ***?cond draft. I ****?ted to get the free proof copy and publish it to CreateSpace, ****? it’s looking pretty sorry at the present moment. :(
Anyone else feeling this way? Does anyone have any advice to help me get back on my feet again?
- Geekier Than Thou

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What are your ***?vorite anthologies of contemporary poetry?


I am interested in all of the 20th century, ****? especially poems and poets from the last half of the century and the present.

I like poems that are accessible ****? of genuine literary merit. Please do not include those massive textbooks, like the Norton Anthology. Also you do not need to include the Best American Poetry ***?ries; they are very interesting, ****? I have a complete collection of those already.
- bfrank

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Does anyone have any topics for a creative writing story?


I hav 2 write a story for my english class. its has 2 be a story about a character’s ***?rsonality that changes from beginning to end. I also need to use travling ***? a metaphor for my character’s change. any ideas?
- Carley

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My NaNoWriMo story idea?


This is my idea for my upcoming NaNoWriMo literary *******…

An alcoholic (who doesn’t have a name yet, I’m ****?rible with names) professor at a local college drags through his life frequenting coffee shops and run down ****?kstores alike ***? his insides crumble. And it’s not from the ****?ze. By some stroke of ***?te, everytime a ***?rson on the planet dies, (name) is struck with pain inside. The closer the ***?rson is to him, the more it hurts. He must figure out how to deal with this problem and make sure nothing happens to his friends, or even worse his loved ones.

Any thoughts? Is this enough to explore in 50k words?

Also, he might have a true love, who if killed would instantly kill him.
- rbw_cynical

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